Yeah, but sense isn't what people are looking for. So when this leads nowhere, people get to complain more and that's really what they want.

If you're here to talk, welcome. If you're here like the last person who just sat around spamming concert links, please go away.

That's the thing, it doesn't equal out. Once you take everything into account, they're probably not gonna put more than 25 to 27 in there for a concert that can't be the day before or the day after a football game for logistics reasons, and for that you might as well use the actual concert venue with better amenities for the artist and crew.

Probably threw it from the Amazon distributor parking lot.

Manufacturing really never disappeared. It has ups and downs, just like anything else. And for a lot of it that might use big, heavy or difficult machinery, you're not likely to want to have to move it all that much, so if you can still stay put and make money, you might as well stick around.

I'd wager the train line is where it is because of the manufacturing, not the other way around.

I can't remember the timing exactly of the change, but it was in the mid 90s I think. They also expanded the menu a little bit, but not a ton. My dad's mom passed about 15 years ago, so I haven't been in a long time, but I'm glad to hear elsewhere that it's still there. Colchester likes to keep stuff around.

Colony too, yes. Absolutely.

Yup. The Athenian group for one, obviously. Cromwell Diner was as well at one point.

It was originally called Zisi's, I believe. Until the original owner either died or left and then they changed the name at that point. My dad's parents were in Colchester, I remember eating pizza from that restaurant back in the 1980s.

Fair point, yet still your loss. I'm sure there's plenty of hockey downstate.

UConns new rink is fabulous.

The Wolfpack being a Rangers minor team is another reason nobody will move in. MSG Inc owns the Civic Center, they'd never allow it to be used by another team.

Cause it's cheaper to the team's parent company than doing anything else with it.

Owned by the New York Rangers, and their parent company, MSG Inc owns the building. There will never be ANOTHER pro team there full time is what I should have said.

The area barely supports the minor league hockey team it has. A pro team will not come.

It's hockey. That's the issue. The Yard Goats have no issue packing their stadium and they're objectively not that good.

Considering who owns the Civic Center, no professional hockey team will ever play there again full time.

Dunkin has its lane. Its fast, the food is hot when it needs to be and cold when it needs to be, and they're everywhere, so it's convenient. Like a lot of fast food though, it's gotten expensive.

Aroma Joe's isn't any better, either. That place has such fanfare when they opened the Bristol location and it's not great.

Driving by Harvest on my way to work is dangerous for my waistline.

Can't beat Cumbys dollar coffee. It's not bad, and if it is every so often burnt or light or just a little off, it was a dollar.

Same, and that was a long time ago.

My sister has long contended that she was there. She's of the appropriate age and music Fandom at the time, but I have never found any evidence. No ticket stub, no photos from that day, no friend who will say they were there with her. Hard to say.

My favorite are the people that can't just wait their turn at a busy intersection and go past the stop line and drive up to right behind the person in front of them that has done the same so they when the light changes for the people in the other direction to go, they're still sitting there blocking the road and can't move so now both directions are stuck.

I'm surprised we can't get a mod to agree to ban them at this point.

Best dog I ever had was at the one in Middletown way way back. Have eaten at most of the current locations but I cannot recall Waterbury.

Walking while black and bear videos dominate my neighborhood usually.

For that much you could build a new one. Yikes.